A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
⛓ Read Isaiah 35 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Holy Way on which 'the unclean shall not pass over it' — supports the exclusion of the profane/unclean (v.27).
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The 'Holy Way' on which the redeemed travel to Zion provides a prophetic 'way' that leads God's people home, figurally fulfilled when Jesus is the exclusive 'way' to the Father's house. Coherence with John's homecoming theme (14:2-3) is strong; the singular eschatological highway resonates with Jesus as the one road of return.
Medium confidence